OSAA state wrestling recap: Top highlights, best performances, memorable moments from 2018 tournament

In sports writing parlance, it’s called “emptying the notebook” – taking all the items that didn’t make your main story and just typing away to get them into print.

The best part for me about covering the 70th OSAA state wrestling championships, though, was that I didn’t have a “main story.” I could just bounce around the 12 (then six) mats scattered across Veterans Memorial Coliseum, fill my notebooks with story after story, then empty their contents to my heart’s content.

Here are just a few (OK, I counted – it’s 35) of the thousands of stories to emerge from the Coliseum over the weekend.